MetroWest, Milford weather: Snowy Saturday!

By Daily News Staff

Friday

Dec 8, 2017 at 7:18 AMDec 8, 2017 at 4:16 PM

Update: The National Weather Service at 4 p.m. has increased the potential of Saturday's storm by a few inches meaning that a winter storm warning has been posted. Snow will start about mid-morning and snow through the day into the evening. About 4-7 inches is expected with some higher amounts possible. A new map has been posted.

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We should get our first measurable snowfall of the season on Saturday, and some areas may actually get 6 inches or even a little more!

Winter weather advisories have been posted by the National Weather Service for Saturday from 4 a.m. until 7 a.m. Sunday. Travel on Saturday will be difficult with snow-covered roads and reduced visibility. It looks like most of the snow will fall from mid-morning until the evening with lingering snow showers at night. Temperatures on Saturday will be right around the freezing mark so the snow should accumulate to 3-6 inches in MetroWest and the Milford area. Some parts of the central Mass. hills could see 7-8 inches and the south coast could see a mix of snow and rain.

For today, it's a cold start and it will stay cold. Lows this morning are in the low-20s and it will warm up to the upper-30s under partly sunny skies. Clouds roll in tonight and the temperature falls to the mid-20s setting us up for tomorrow's storm.

And it's looking like we could get more snow again on Tuesday. Welcome to instant winter!

Here's the latest advisory from MassDOT:

MassDOT’s snow and ice operations will be activated. Crews are currently conducting preparation activities in advance of the winter weather. For example, crews will be pretreating the roadways at locations throughout the Commonwealth with brine and Magnesium Chloride, and planning deployments of snowplows and spreaders and maintenance equipment. MassDOT’s Highway Division utilizes up to 700 staff members to perform snow and ice removal operations on more than 15,000 lanes miles of roadway throughout the Commonwealth. This snow and ice season, MassDOT will have approximately 4,200 pieces of state and vendor equipment available using over 150 depots and storage locations. This includes over 1,300 plow and spreader combos, 2,100 plows, and 460 front-end loaders.

If drivers must go out on the roadways, they are advised to drive the conditions, lower their speeds, give themselves extra time to reach their destinations, and remember MassDOT’s message, “Don’t Crowd the Plow,” and stay behind snow removal equipment on the roadways. MassDOT strongly urges drivers to always wear seatbelts, minimize distractions, turn off or put away cell-phones and devote full attention to what is ahead on the road.